john davis carroll art

Monday, December 29, 2014

ArtsKC: Now Showing is a program designed to foster partnerships between individual artists and businesses by providing opportunities for metro-area artists to display their work in the conference rooms, lobbies, and office spaces of local companies. The partnership benefits the artist who is exposed to a potential new audience, as well as the company who is exposed to new elements of creativity and inspiration.My paintings will be on display at EPR Properties 909 Walnut until March 17th 2015. In 1997 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

The building was built in 1930–31 as the Fidelity National Bank & Trust Building (referred to locally as the Fidelity Building) at an estimated cost of $2,850,000, including bank fixtures.[2] The site had been a two-story post office and federal building until 1904 when Fidelity took over the site for its headquarters. The two-story building was razed in 1930. The new building mimicked the original federal twin-spire structure, in an Art Deco-Gothic Revival architectural motif. (wikipedia)

Sunday, October 5, 2014

"Neptune" a ready made assist video construction 27" x 15" x 10" will be up for auction to benefit the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Online bidding will start October 8th for those who purchase tickets for the event on October 18th 2014 at 7pm. There will be a live auction and silent auction (smart phone needed), gourmet buffet and entertainment.
The public can preview “Beyond Bounds” at no charge from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 15 and 16 and from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 17.

Friday, October 3, 2014

"Over Land and Water" my show at The Late Show 1600 Cherry KC MO is tonight 6pm - 10pm! 16 paintings of various sizes in the show. The work will be up for the month of October. "Corn and Stack" 7" x 5" oil on wood, "Contrail over Missouri" 12" x 9" oil on wood, "Evening Clouds over the Ohio" 30" x 40" oil on wood.

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

UB is the main capital of Mongolia where about 2/3 of the 3 million people in the country live. It is the coldest capital in the world. Mongolia has a long history. Beyond what spoils Chinnghis Khan brought to the region in the 13th century, UB shows influences from Tibet, China, Russia, Soviet and more recently Western influences. For better or worse UB is rapidly growing and changing.

The graffiti shown here are more mural / art than gang related. The night club ones are at Iloft. The outdoor barrier ones were west of the downtown.

Friday, April 4, 2014

6 of my larger paintings are on display in the lobby of Hangar Ten at the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, Kansas City through the Summer of 2014. Thanks to ArtsKC.org and Hangar Ten. Painting of the jet engine "Parallel Parked" is especially appropriate.

About Me

Kansas City-based artist John Davis
Carroll, whose paintings, drawings, and video constructions question
classifications of what is considered natural or unnatural in our surroundings.
His subject is often discovered along the Missouri river where forces of nature
and human are accentuated. Industrial engineering and organic process commingle
at these sites, speaking of humanity’s ongoing attempts to define, control or
otherwise set aside a natural world that is both omnipresent and inextricably
linked to us through our mutual efforts to encroach.

Carroll is represented by The Late Show
Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri where he had a reviewed solo show “Snow” in
2010. He had his first installation of mixed media drawings and video
constructions in an invitational show titled “Overland” at the Epsten Gallery
Overland Park Kansas 2011. The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art has acquired
two of his paintings for their permanent collection and his work is collected
by local and national private art collectors. Carroll was awarded a studio
space for a year through Charlotte Street Fund's Urban Culture Project Kansas
City, Missouri in 2011. He is currently participating in the Art Through
Architecture, completed the Artist Inc. program, received a "Best of
Show" for his new media construction "Winter" in Small Works
2009 at NYU, New York City and for his painting "Nicholson Ave" at
the Art of the Center 2008 in Overland Park, Kansas.

Carroll received his B.F.A. in Painting
1987 from Swain School of Design in Massachusetts. His Graduate studies were at
Parsons School of Design in New York City graduating in 1990. In 1993 he moved
to Kansas City, Missouri where he currently resides.Carroll teaches drawing and painting at
Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas and life drawing for
the Masters in Theatre Design at UMKC in Kansas City, Missouri.